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>> medicare is run efficiently. the overhead costs on medicare are much more efficient than any private insurance company. it is run efficiently. i spent the last 10 years of my career in health care. i know medicare pretty well. here is what i would propose changing. medicare can be here for the current generation, for the next generation, the generation after that. we need to make sure that is a solemn promise we have made to seniors, and that along with social security keeps seniors out of poverty. we need to make sure medicare, just like the va, can -- prescription drug costs. we electronic records used to the full advantage of making sure patients are not getting over-prescribed drugs, word that the health care they need is not redundant. electronic health records help do that. lastly, we coordinate care with the help of electronic health records, with help of the provisions of the center for medicare and medicaid innovation. we can do that. i have seen great successes and i know that has great potential saving
>> medicare is run efficiently. the overhead costs on medicare are much more efficient than any private insurance company. it is run efficiently. i spent the last 10 years of my career in health care. i know medicare pretty well. here is what i would propose changing. medicare can be here for the current generation, for the next generation, the generation after that. we need to make sure that is a solemn promise we have made to seniors, and that along with social security keeps seniors...
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barack obama will protect medicare. bob casey will protect medicare. period. host: let's go to mike in pennsylvania. many people refer to your part of the state as alabama. do you feel like you live in an alabama-like state? pennsylvania is pittsburgh on the west, philadelphia on the east and george in the middle. -- georgia in the middle. host: what part of pennsylvania? caller: north central, right off of the interstate 8. when barack obama took office, 42% of the taxpayers were not paying any income tax. people in central pennsylvania and all across the t are getting tired of this class warfare. you look at the most wealthy california, massachusetts, maryland. they are the most democratic states. they are the ones that claim help their constituents. they vote republican. why is that? is not because they are wealthy. it is because they have a value system. they do not want government solving their problems. host: thanks for the call. josh, would you like to respond? guest: there are people in his community that may not be paying income taxes right now. the 4
barack obama will protect medicare. bob casey will protect medicare. period. host: let's go to mike in pennsylvania. many people refer to your part of the state as alabama. do you feel like you live in an alabama-like state? pennsylvania is pittsburgh on the west, philadelphia on the east and george in the middle. -- georgia in the middle. host: what part of pennsylvania? caller: north central, right off of the interstate 8. when barack obama took office, 42% of the taxpayers were not paying...
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i will fight privatization of medicare with every breath i have because, to your question -- if medicare or medicaid becomes privatized and is being run by health-care insurance companies, then the decisions that are made will be what is in their best interest. what makes their bottom line better, not what protect s connecticut's seniors, not what connects those families trying to come to a very tough decision. >> should government have our role in and of life health-care and the spending that goes with that? >> the way to do this is to simply not empower health insurance bureaucrats. the way to do is to have families deep in consultation with physicians about the best course of action is either direction and their choice at the end of life.
i will fight privatization of medicare with every breath i have because, to your question -- if medicare or medicaid becomes privatized and is being run by health-care insurance companies, then the decisions that are made will be what is in their best interest. what makes their bottom line better, not what protect s connecticut's seniors, not what connects those families trying to come to a very tough decision. >> should government have our role in and of life health-care and the spending...
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saying they are not cutting medicare or environmental protection is like mitt romney trying to convince the guy in the unemployment line that he did not outsource his job, he offshored his job. and now romney is running ads all across the country about getting tough on china. the same guy the washington post called a pioneer in outsourcing. the same guy who criticize the president for taking action in china, saving thousands of jobs in the steel and rubber industry. the same guy who has part of his fortune invested in chinese companies. the same job the wants to sign a territorial act that would create 800,000 jobs -- all of them overseas. this is a guy who as governor of massachusetts literally outsourced the call service that people would call into to see if they qualified for unemployment. he sent it overseas. now, when you hear met ronnie say he would protect american -- mitt romney say he would protect american jobs by getting tough on china, i have one word for you. you know it. malarkey. is a bunch of malarkey. [applause] folks, mid-romney has shown he is very good is sending job
saying they are not cutting medicare or environmental protection is like mitt romney trying to convince the guy in the unemployment line that he did not outsource his job, he offshored his job. and now romney is running ads all across the country about getting tough on china. the same guy the washington post called a pioneer in outsourcing. the same guy who criticize the president for taking action in china, saving thousands of jobs in the steel and rubber industry. the same guy who has part of...
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turning medicare from guaranteed plan into a voucher program. seniorsill causost thousands of dollars over time. not in 19 million people off the program. -- knocking 19 million people off the problem. promising another $250,000 for the top 1% which require raising taxes for the middle-class are $2,000 a year. all of these cuts in vital programs are in the service of new massive tax cuts for the wealthy. instead of signing a pledge to grover norquist to cut taxes for the wealthy, they should be signing a pledge to middle-class people of america. [applause] to give them a fair shot again. that is the pledge to president and i have signed from the start. we understand how badly the republican policies they want to reinstate heard the middle class. we understand that my dad was right when he used to say your job is about a lot more than a paycheck. it is about your dignity. respect. your place in the community. so that is why we will continue to focus our second term plans for jobs because we believe for americans to succeed, the middle class has t
turning medicare from guaranteed plan into a voucher program. seniorsill causost thousands of dollars over time. not in 19 million people off the program. -- knocking 19 million people off the problem. promising another $250,000 for the top 1% which require raising taxes for the middle-class are $2,000 a year. all of these cuts in vital programs are in the service of new massive tax cuts for the wealthy. instead of signing a pledge to grover norquist to cut taxes for the wealthy, they should be...
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both sides have done this to some degree to scare our elderly voters about what will happen to medicare and social security. for every one of those i have heard, i have also heard accounts of people going to meetings like this. i would be surprised - when you look at the election, you ask yourself how many people voted for john mccain last time who will vote for president obama this time. outside of examples like that, i do not know i have met anybody who falls into that category. the people who voted for obama last time who will vote for romney this time, those people are not that hard to find. host: he used to work at the washington post. he covered the political rise of senator john and works and his political aspirations. he worked for the detroit news for six years. comments are coming in about the comments mitt romney made to the register about abortion. one says it was a generous assessment. others would have said he lied. no abortion legislation should be. news for those liberals concerned they would be made illegal. is he demoting some who will not come out on election day? gue
both sides have done this to some degree to scare our elderly voters about what will happen to medicare and social security. for every one of those i have heard, i have also heard accounts of people going to meetings like this. i would be surprised - when you look at the election, you ask yourself how many people voted for john mccain last time who will vote for president obama this time. outside of examples like that, i do not know i have met anybody who falls into that category. the people...
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there have been many programs, social security, medicare, medicaid, and others which serve as real precedence. you have a very ideological core. this is essentially the court which elected bush over gore 5- 4. this is the ideological court that came down with citizens united. kennedy is a swing vote. i studied kennedy very closely since i have been dissipated as confirmation in 1988. -- participated in his confirmation in 1988. one thing he said was that a mandate certainly goes far toward being an encouragement -- an infringement on liberty, suggesting he would strike it down. later in the argument, he left himself some wiggle room, saying, if people get their health care at the emergency room, it shifts the burden to everybody else. you cannot be sure if they strike it down. i think that will be a confused situation. there are some things that have already gone into effect, some parts of the exchanges, for example. recovering children in the apparents' policies. is it in their parents' policies. -- and their parents' policies. isin their parents' policy -- policies. you have a supreme court
there have been many programs, social security, medicare, medicaid, and others which serve as real precedence. you have a very ideological core. this is essentially the court which elected bush over gore 5- 4. this is the ideological court that came down with citizens united. kennedy is a swing vote. i studied kennedy very closely since i have been dissipated as confirmation in 1988. -- participated in his confirmation in 1988. one thing he said was that a mandate certainly goes far toward...
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there will also be a medicare tax will increase. i think that 18 numbers right for cutting taxes on small businesses. republicans have made a tactical mistake when they tried to market this on the ground that they are for small business. the goal of the tax cut is to remove distortions in the economy, but when you focus on its specifically being for small business, you leave yourself completely open to the response that they have made. if your goal is to cut taxes, a dog specific, targeted tax cuts for small business. that is what they have done and some of these provisions are incredibly complex, incredibly narrow. but there are dozens and dozens of on provisions and both parties have supported it. they're ultimately at fault for having made the small business argument when they should be talking about removing distortions throughout the economy. i cannot blame the president responded way he has. institute and our other guest is rebecca wilkins with citizens for tax justice. what is your take on theguest: alan is right. a lot of th
there will also be a medicare tax will increase. i think that 18 numbers right for cutting taxes on small businesses. republicans have made a tactical mistake when they tried to market this on the ground that they are for small business. the goal of the tax cut is to remove distortions in the economy, but when you focus on its specifically being for small business, you leave yourself completely open to the response that they have made. if your goal is to cut taxes, a dog specific, targeted tax...